In Chicago, Christy Mathewson blanks the Cubs on three hits and the Giants defeat Buttons Briggs, 3 - 0. The second game is called after 10 innings with the score 2 - 2. Chicago fans show their feelings towards the Giants by tossing bottles onto the field. RF George Browne is hit on the leg and is almost hit in the head while chasing a fly ball. John McGraw tells ump Bob Emslie that he will not allow his team to continue play until all the broken glass is cleared, and by the time that occurs it is too dark to continue play.

The Giants split with the Pirates, taking the first game, 4 - 3, behind Hooks Wiltse, then losing the second. Bugs Raymond toils the whole nine innings for the Giants and gets clobbered, 11 - 3. John McGraw leaves the high-living pitcher in the runaway to teach him a lesson.

1910 - Atop the Washington Monument, White Sox pitcher Ed Walsh throws 23 balls before C Billy Sullivan snares one, then catches two more, 555 feet below. It duplicates Gabby Street's catch of August 21, 1908. The estimated speed of the ball is 161 feet per second. On the field Walsh will be 18-20 despite a league-leading 1.27 ERA, the only time a pitcher with a losing record loses 20 and leads either league in ERA.

The Giants split with Pittsburgh, but move into a tie for 1st place. Christy Mathewson loses the opener, 3 - 1, giving up six hits and two earned runs in eight innings. Rube Marquard salvages the nitecap with a 2-hitter, striking out 11.

1913 - In Chicago, Walter Johnson wins his 14th straight, a 2 - 1 decision over the White Sox. Johnson fans the side in the 8th inning, then with two on and two out in the 9th, strikes out Eddie Collins.

1918 - Secretary of War Newton Baker grants an extended exemption to players in the World Series; three days later the National Commission gets an official approval to play from General Enoch Crowder, providing that 10 percent of the revenues go to war charities.

1930 - New York'sFred Lindstrom has his 24-game hitting streak stopped as the Giants lose to the Cubs, 3 - 2. The game is tied 2-all in the bottom of the 9th, when the Cubs load the bases with two out. With the count 0 and 2, Danny Taylor the runner on 3rd, races safely home as surprised Giant reliever Joe Heving watches and then completes his deliberate windup with a wide pitch.

1935 - Giants OF Hank Leiber ties the major-league record with two home runs during an 8-run, second-inning assault on the Cubs.

The Dodgers split a pair in Pittsburgh, losing the opener, 4 - 3 before winning, 8 - 1. In the nitecap, Joe Gallagher hits a double and homer in the same inning.

1941 - A rag tag group of five musicians, dubbed the Dodger SymPhony by announcer Red Barber, make their Ebbets Field debut. This band, none of which can read music, perform their zany antics at all evening and weekend games.

1945 - Cleveland ace Bob Feller returns from the Navy and attracts a home crowd of 46,477, who watch him strike out 12 and yield only four hits in a 4 - 2 win over Detroit'sHal Newhouser. He will get nine starts during the remainder of the year, and his five wins will include a one-hitter and two 4-hitters. With the war now over, fans are clamoring for entertainment and it is clear Feller is still baseball's number one ticket seller.

In the first game of the doubleheader in Philadelphia, the Reds score nine runs in the 10th inning to win, 12 - 3. Ten batters go the plate before an out is made. Schoolboy Rowe wins the nitecap for Philly, 8 - 6, and helps the cause with a homer.

At Fenway Park, with the Red Sox trailing Cleveland, 8 - 7, Vern Stephens crashes a 2-run homer to give the Sox a 9 - 8 win and move them into first place. This is Stephen's 15th game-winning hit of the year.

1950 - Boston SS Vern Stephens' ninth inning grand slam against the Browns gives the Red Sox a 6 - 2. win. The Sox have now won nine straight and have whipped the Browns 18 times in 19 games this year.

In another of Bill Veeck's legendary public relations stunts, "Fans Managers' Night," the Browns defeat the Athletics, 5 - 3. The Browns' coaches hold up placards for 1115 fans, who vote "yes" or "no" on the options given them. Manager Zack Taylor sits in a box behind the dugout with two fans who monitor the voting. Adding to the festivities is Max Patkin, the clown prince of baseball, who coaches at first base for several innings. Sherm Lollar voted in to start behind the plate instead of Matt Batts, has three hits including a homer, and Hank Arft, also voted in, knocks home two. Gus Zernial's 28th home run accounts for all the A's runs. When the stunt was announced on August 15, A's GM Art Ehlers bitterly denounced it as "farcical."

At the Polo Grounds, the Giants tie the Cards in the 9th on three singles, and with the bases loaded, Bobby Thomson scores the winner on a fielder's choice play at the plate. New York wins, 6 - 5, its 12th in a row and 4th in a row in coming from behind.

Dodger coach Leo Durocher suffers a near-fatal allergic reaction to a penicillin injection while in the clubhouse at the Polo Grounds before a game. An emergency intravenous injection of adrenaline saves his life.

"The Greatest Throw Ever Made At Forbes Field!" And Roberto Clemente didn't make it! After throwing out his onetime pupil Roberto at the plate last night, tonight Willie burns Willie... Mays vs. Stargell, that is. Giants' beat writer Bob Stevens reports: "The Bucs scored two in their first at-bats on an error by Tito Fuentes, the rookie shortstop's first as a major leaguer, a single by Bill Virdon, a double play ball second baseman Hal Lanier fumbled and a double to the centerfield wall by Donn Clendenon. It was here that Mays amazed again. He scooped up the ball at the base of the 406-foot sign, whirled and fired. It came in on one bounce, directly in front of catcher Tom Haller, who put it on the astonished Willie Stargell. It was described by old-timers as the greatest throw ever made in ancient Forbes Field, but it was a costly one. Mays hurt himself on the heroic effort." Willie leaves the game in the sixth with a pulled groin and his immediate future in doubt. However, Mays will pinch-hit tomorrow and, in two days, will start both ends of the twin bill which concludes the five-game series with Pittsburgh.

In Milwaukee, Tommy Harper cracks a two-run homer with two outs in the 9th inning as the Reds beat the Braves, 3 - 2. Billy O'Dell is the pitcher serving up Harper's homer.

1967 - While pushing a car, Philadelphia'sRichie Allen suffers a severe injury when he pushes his hand through the headlight. It will sideline him for the remainder of the season. The Phils will go 14-21 without him.

At St. Louis, Hank Aaron belts a 14th inning 3-run homer to give the Braves a 4 - 1 win over the Cards. There are no stolen bases in the game, though Bob Didier and Tim McCarver throw out six would-be thieves between them.

In the second game of a doubleheader sweep, Giant hurler Ed Halickino-hits the Mets, 6 - 0. The 6'7" righthander strikes out 10 Mets to improve his record to 8-10. Craig Swan takes the loss. Controversy arises when Rusty Staub hits a ball off Halicki's leg, which caroms to the 2B Derrel Thomas, who picks it up then drops it. Official scorer Joe Sargis rules it an E-4. New York columnist Dick Young, watching the game on TV, writes that it should be a hit and accuses Sargis of subscribing to the theory that the first hit off a starter should be a "good one." The no-hitter stands but UPI's Sargis loses his job as a sometime scorer.

Orioles southpaw Tippy Martinezpicks off three runners in the 10th inning as the Blue Jays take long leads trying to take advantage of his new battery mate, Lenn Sakata, an infielder with no professional catching experience pressed into service behind the plate. The converted catcher gets revenge as his three-run homer in the bottom of the frame wins the game, 7 - 4.

CubsChuck Rainey is one out away from a no-hitter when the Reds'Eddie Milner singles to center on the first pitch. Rainey settles for a 3 - 0 one-hitter, his first complete game of the season. For Milner, this is the third of five instances in which he will collect his team's only hit in a game, a major league mark he'll share with Cesar Tovar.

1989 - After weeks of legal wrangling, Commissioner Bart Giamatti permanently bans Pete Rose from baseball for his alleged gambling on major league games. Although the 5-page document signed by both parties includes no formal findings, Giamatti says that he considers Rose's acceptance of the ban to be a no-contest plea to the charges. Coach Tommy Helms is named Rose's interim replacement as Cincinnati manager.

1991 - Mariners hurler Rob Murphy sets what is believed to be a major league record by appearing in his 121st straight game without a win, a 7 - 2 loss to Detroit. Tom Henke had pitched in 120 consecutive winless games from 1986 to 1988.

Milwaukee OF Kevin Reimer is 6 for 6 and scores four runs in the Brewers' 7 - 6, 12-inning win over Oakland in the nitecap of two. The Brew Crew collects 21 hits. They have 13 hits in the opener, a 9 - 2 win in which Reimer is 1 for 2. Milwaukee trails 2 - 1 until the 7th.

The Padres score 13 runs in the first inning against the Cardinals. They win, 17 - 4.

2001 - The Colorado Rockies defeat the Mets, 10 - 0, in P Jason Jennings' major league debut. Jennings hurls a 5-hit shutout, while getting three safeties himself, including a home run. He becomes the first pitcher since 1900 to hurl a shutout and hit a home run in his first big league game.

The Orioles drop a pair to the Blue Jays, losing 4 - 1 and 8 - 3. This is the start of a miserable 4-31 year-end slide. In game 1, a makeup of a July 23rainout, Vernon Wells has four hits, including a homer, and scores three runs. Pete Walker pitches seven innings for the win. The bright spot for Baltimore is Mike Bordick, who fields four chances flawlessly to set a major-league record with 428 straight chances without an error. It breaks the mark that Cal Ripken set in 1990. Wells and Chris Woodward hit homers in game 2.

2004 - Bud Selig, citing how disruptive a delay in the major league schedule would be on pennant races, says it is unlikely that major league players will ever be able to take part in the Olympics. The baseball commissioner hopes a "World Cup", which begins in 2006, will serve as a substitute for the Summer Games.

2005 - After fouling off three Jose Valverde full-count fastballs, Mike Jacobs goes deep at Bank One Ballpark to become the only player to hit four home runs during the first four games of a major league career. The Mets rookie, who hits two round-trippers in the 18 - 4 rout of the Diamondbacks, has homered four times, including his first big league at-bat, in his first 13 plate appearances.

43-year-old Masahiro Yamamoto improves to 10-3 with a 9 - 1 win over the Yomiuri Giants. He breaks Kimiyasu Kudoh's NPB record as oldest hurler with double-digit wins. Earlier in the month, Yamamoto had reached 200 career wins. Through this game, he has won 7 in a row.

2010 - The Astros win a marathon match with the Phillies, needing 16 innings and 5 hours to complete a 4 - 2 win in Philadelphia. After 1B Ryan Howard is ejected in the 14th inning, P Roy Oswalt is forced to play in LF for the Phils, who have no position players left. Howard's tossing caps a dreadful day for him, in which he goes 0 for 7 with 5 strikeouts. In the top of the 16th, the Astros scrap out two runs against loser David Herndon on a single, a hit by pitch, a walk, and two ground balls to the infield; in the bottom of the inning, Oswalt grounds out with two on for the game's final out.

Meanwhile, Oakland beats the Yankees, 6 - 4, in 10 innings. Coco Crisp has four hits and 5 RBI for the A's, including a three-run homer - his second long ball of the game - off Rafael Soriano in the 10th. Crisp's first homer, off CC Sabathia, had given Oakland a 1 - 0 lead in the 1st, and his second RBI puts the team ahead 3 - 2 in the 8th; Scott Sizemore drives in the other run as part of a 4-for-4 night. Nick Swisher has a pair of homers for the losers, his second one tying the score in the bottom of the 8th.